MILK SUPPLY

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 98, 25 April 1917, Page 3

MILK SUPPLY

TO THB EDITOR,

Sir,—Re the milk supply : I would like to offer my experience in London, in which city I was living in the '80's in Highbury, London N, We used to have to go to the dairy for our milk; the said dairy keeping four cows in a fine up-to-date sanitary cowshed, and delivering the milk at a small extra, rate, or one •could take one's iown jug and get the milk direct from the cows. I am a native of Wellington, and was surprised at- their . keeping cows in London, and asked the proprietor how he managed. He stated that when a cow became dry he replaced her with one just calved, and so on in rotation, and that he fed with the usual dry feed with a certain quantity of green cats or clover. Now, Sir, why cannot this be done in Wellington, say, so many cows in a given locality, the dairy to be up to date and under careful supervision of the sanitary inspectors? This could be undertaken by private enterprise or by the City Council: I am certain this would be a solution of the difficulty, and I would undertake to go into the thing myself only I am itoo old, but to anyone going into the business I would invest in it and give any assistance I could.—l am, etc., ' \ J. H. JACKSON.

P.S.— I omitted to mention that this method was the rule in and around London and suburbs, and as far as I could judge was a success. I took particular interest in the question, as in the old Wellington days I was for a time as a boy employed, by the late Mr. Fitchett in the dairy business at Ohiro, so wellknown to old Wellihgtonians.—J.H.J. Koro Koro, 23rd April.